Socket.io Client: respond to all events with one handler?

Solution 1:

Updated solution for socket.io-client 1.3.7

var onevent = socket.onevent;
socket.onevent = function (packet) {
    var args = packet.data || [];
    onevent.call (this, packet);    // original call
    packet.data = ["*"].concat(args);
    onevent.call(this, packet);      // additional call to catch-all
};

Use like this:

socket.on("*",function(event,data) {
    console.log(event);
    console.log(data);
});

None of the answers worked for me, though the one of Mathias Hopf and Maros Pixel came close, this is my adjusted version.

NOTE: this only catches custom events, not connect/disconnect etc

Solution 2:

It looks like the socket.io library stores these in a dictionary. As such, don't think this would be possible without modifying the source.

From source:

EventEmitter.prototype.on = function (name, fn) {
    if (!this.$events) {
      this.$events = {};
    }

    if (!this.$events[name]) {
      this.$events[name] = fn;
    } else if (io.util.isArray(this.$events[name])) {
      this.$events[name].push(fn);
    } else {
      this.$events[name] = [this.$events[name], fn];
    }

    return this;
  };